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	Fred Shuttlesworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shuttlesworth embraced that philosophy, even though his own personality was combative, headstrong and sometimes blunt-spoken to the point that he frequently antagonized his colleagues in the movement as well as his opponents.
		Shuttlesworth himself vowed to "kill segregation or be killed by it".
		Shuttlesworth participated in the sit-ins against segregated lunch counters in 1960 and took part in the organization of the Freedom Rides in 1961.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Shuttlesworth (1170 words)

	The Militant - November 30, 2004 -- Fred Shuttlesworth resigns from SCLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shuttlesworth’s departure comes amidst charges and countercharges of mismanagement, financial irresponsibility, and misuse of funds, and a substantial membership decline that has marked the decades-long leadership struggle in the SCLC.
		Shuttlesworth, along with Martin Luther King Jr., was among the founding leaders of SCLC, as the organization is popularly known.
		Shuttlesworth was also a founding leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in 1956 and served as the organization’s president until 1969.
	www.themilitant.com /2004/6844/684451.html (285 words)

	Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Aug. 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fred L. Shuttlesworth was born in 1922 in Montgomery County, Alabama but was reared in rural Oxmoor (now an incorporated part of Birmingham).
		Shuttlesworth, a Baptist minister since 1950 and now pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, is considered by some historians to be one of the Civil Rights Movement’s “big three,” along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Shuttlesworth became membership chairman of the Birmingham Chapter of the NAACP, which, in May 1956, was outlawed in Alabama.
	sclcnational.org /page.aspx?s=18223.0.12.2607 (500 words)

	Local - The Enquirer - January 20, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fred was the oldest of nine and went to school and played in the Alabama backwoods before attending high school in a segregated Birmingham suburb.
		Fred worked as a truck driver and for a cement company, built a home in Mobile, Ala., from World War II scrap metal and bought a cow to feed his young family.
		That was the case in May 1995, when the Rev. Shuttlesworth lent his skill to an NAACP-led coalition protesting police-community relations in the wake of the videotaped arrest of a fl teen-ager, Pharon Crosby, by Cincinnati police officers.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1997/01/20/loc_shuttlesworth.html (3120 words)

	Fred Shuttlesworth
		Fred Shuttlesworth was born in Alabama on 18th March, 1922.
		Shuttlesworth's civil rights activities made him a target of white racists and on the evening of 25th December, 1956, Shuttlesworth survived a bomb blast that destroyed his house.
		Shuttlesworth took a neighbor who was hurt in the explosion to the hospital.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAshutterworth.htm (1189 words)

	Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth: unsung hero of the civil rights movement Baptist History and Heritage - Find ...
		Fred Shuttlesworth is clearly one of the most unsung of the many heroes of the American Civil Rights movement.
		Beyond emphasizing the obvious, then, I want to argue that in the life and ministry of Fred Shuttlesworth, both in the church and in the streets, can be found a rather pure embodiment of the fiery, combative spirituality of African American Christian faith.
		Perhaps more than anyone in the entire civil rights movement, Fred Shuttlesworth embodied this fiery, "combative spirituality." (3) His life reveals the development of a charismatic and confrontational personality who withstood and often created considerable conflict in all his important relationships and contexts--family, segregated southern society, his churches, and the civil rights movement.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NXG/is_3_35/ai_94160959 (942 words)

	Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
		One of Reverend Fred Shuttleworth’s first sermons as a Baptist minister focused on two questions Paul had of God: “Who are you?” and “What would you have me do?” The latter question would guide Rev. Shutlesworth for the rest of his career as a socially conscious minister first in Alabama, then in Cincinnati.
		In 1961, Rev. Shuttlesworth moved to Cincinnati to become pastor of Revelation Baptist Church.
		In this oral interview, Rev. Shuttlesworth describes the beginning of his ministerial career in Selma and Birmingham, Alabama, and his experience in the early Civil Rights movements in the mid-1950s.
	library.cincymuseum.org /aag/bio/shuttlesworth.html (617 words)

	Bombed, whipped and beaten, he never wavered in the fight for freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bold and aggressive, Shuttlesworth was bombed, whipped and beaten with chains as he worked to desegregate schools and bring equity to bus service.
		Shuttlesworth considered his work to be a mission from God, whose strength he called upon when challenging police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, a hard-core segregationist.
		Shuttlesworth, wearing a dark purple suit, occasionally came from behind the lectern and with a preacher's zeal, urged the group to continue to fight for freedom.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05170/524257.stm (554 words)

	Overbreadth. Shuttlesworth opinion analyzed by lawyerdude.
		Shuttlesworth, as an officer who participated in the arrest testified, was a "notorious" person in the field of civil rights in Birmingham.
		Shuttlesworth's arrest was an incident in the tense racial conflict in Birmingham.
		Shuttlesworth's walk on April 4, 1962, started during a recess in a federal court civil rights trial in which he was involved.
	www.lawyerdude.8m.com /5089.html (4845 words)

	A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth Alabama Review - Find ...
		Shuttlesworth's first step toward the life of a civil rights activist began in 1953 when a voter registrar refused to transfer his registration from Mobile to Birmingham.
		Shuttlesworth always saw his civic-mindedness, and later his civil rights activism, as part of the prophetic role inherent in the pastoral office" (p.
		Shuttlesworth's role in forming a new civil rights organization placed him at the center of the movement to change the state's racial caste system.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_200110/ai_n8956981 (893 words)

	Andrew M
		Shuttlesworth, though largely a local figure, deserves the same recognition as King in the historical understanding of the Civil Rights Movement.
		Shuttlesworth, unlike King, explained civil rights in the language of African-American faith, not theological concepts associated with the Social Gospel.
		Shuttlesworth’s story can now be added to the collective historiography of both the Civil Rights Movement and African-American religious life.
	jsr.as.wvu.edu /thompson.htm (786 words)

	A Fire You Can't Put Out - Books & Culture
		Shuttlesworth was immeasurably proud that he could speak on a first-name basis with the attorney general of the United States, Robert Kennedy, but he was largely immune to the seductive compromises that Kennedy offered.
		Shuttlesworth emerged onto the street and proceeded to preach a short sermon to the crowd.
		Shuttlesworth endured vicious beatings while trying to integrate schools, buses, and businesses, but ordinary fl Birminghamians believed that he could not be intimidated nor would God allow him to be killed.
	www.christianitytoday.com /books/web/2001/jan17a.html (2090 words)

	Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Delivers Final Sermon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shuttlesworth says he was also constantly faced death when he stood up to the Klu Klux Klan during the 1960s in the South.
		Shuttlesworth plans to make speeches, deliver an occasional sermon and write a book upon his retirement after serving 40 years as a pastor at his church.
		The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth may be retiring after more than 40 years at the pulpit, but it won't be the last time he'll preach.
	www.wcpo.com /news/2006/local/03/19/shuttlesworth.html (717 words)

	SAA: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth to Deliver Plenary Address
		Fred Shuttlesworth to Deliver Plenary Address at SAA Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama
		The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, currently pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of the giants of the American Civil Rights Movement, generally regarded, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		During the civil rights struggles in Birmingham, Rev. Shuttlesworth's house was a frequent target of bombing attacks and he was hospitalized after a fire hose slammed him up against a building during a civil rights demonstration.
	www.archivists.org /conference/birm2002/shuttlesworth.asp?prnt=y (267 words)

	Heroes \| Best Of Cincinnati 2001
		For Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the cost became clear the night of Christmas 1956, when 16 sticks of dynamite destroyed his house and the church he led in Birmingham.
		Now 79 years old, Shuttlesworth is a living icon of the power of nonviolence in the face of injustice.
		Shuttlesworth moved to Cincinnati in 1961 to become pastor of Revelation Baptist Church.
	www.best-of-cincinnati.com /years/bestof2001/heroes.htm (819 words)

	al.com: Unseen. Unforgotten.
		The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was beaten as he tried to enroll his children in a white high school, and his home was bombed on Christmas, the day before he integrated Birmingham buses.
		Shuttlesworth informed the media of his plans to integrate the waiting rooms and was followed by reporters, photographers and a white mob estimated at more than 100.
		At the Birmingham jail, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth encounters barriers as he posts bail after sitting in the white section of a city bus.
	www.al.com /unseen/stories/index.ssf?cutlines1.html (1258 words)

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		Rallied to defense of Jean-Bertrand Aristide while condemning the U.S. Born in 1922 in Alabama, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth emerged as one of the most active and storied figures of the early civil rights movement.
		In 1957 Shuttlesworth allied with Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and Bayard Rustin to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
		Though a notorious apologist for the human rights abuses perpetrated by Cuba’s Stalinist regime, the actor was deemed a worthy recipient of the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award, which he received, in November 2003, at a gala dinner in Birmingham, Alabama.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1823 (562 words)

	A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth... specs at MSN Shopping
		When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle.
		Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night.
		For that reason King himself referred to Shuttlesworth as "one of the nation's most courageous freedom fighters", and without him and other such local leaders, King could not have accomplished what he did.Andrew M. Manis argues that, during a ministry that exte...
	shopping.msn.com /specs/shp/?itemId=2814540 (211 words)

	Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		DAAP is proud and honored to bring a leader of Reverend Shuttlesworth’s stature to U of M. Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth launched the fight to end Jim Crow segregation in Birmingham, Alabama in 1955.
		Described by Martin Luther King as “one of the nation’s most courageous freedom fighters,” Reverend Shuttlesworth was responsible for organizing the historic battles of Birmingham in April and May 1963 that broke the back of segregation throughout the South and placed Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the national spotlight.
		Reverend Shuttlesworth is currently active in the struggle against racist police brutality and murder in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	www.umich.edu /~daap/lit-shuttlesworth-2001-11.htm (321 words)

	University of South Alabama Press Release
		Shuttlesworth, a Baptist minister since 1950, was considered by many as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s “big three,” along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
		Shuttlesworth was born in Montgomery County and raised in Oxmoor, Ala.
		Shuttlesworth is the recipient of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute’s highest award for his civil rights work.
	www.southalabama.edu /publicrelations/pressreleases/2003pr/101503.html (483 words)

	firstamendmentcenter.org: analysis
		Fred Shuttlesworth suffered physical attacks on his body and home for his devotion to the cause of civil rights in Alabama.
		Shuttlesworth was charged with violating an ordinance making it unlawful to parade or picket without first obtaining a license from city officials.
		All four of these African-Americans — Fred Shuttlesworth, Alton Lemon, Ishmael Jaffree and Anthony Griffin — deserve to be remembered and respected for their First Amendment battles.
	www.firstamendmentcenter.org /analysis.aspx?id=12734 (1801 words)

	African American Tribute Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shuttlesworth is a civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama.
		On December 25, 1956, unknown persons tried to kill Shuttlesworth by placing sixteen sticks of dynamite under his bedroom window.
		Shuttlesworth and his family escaped unharmed even though his house was heavily damaged.
	www.whoswhopublishing.com /sections/tribute_videos/index.shtml (485 words)

	Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - SCLC Prays for Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shuttlesworth is synonymous with civil rights in Birmingham, and as a young preacher, urged Dr. King and the SCLC to come to Birmingham to confront the police and segregationists there who routinely attacked peaceful protestors with dogs, firehoses, knives, guns, and bombs.
		Shuttlesworth prides himself, the SCLC, and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), which he led in Birmingham, with taking the âBullâ out of Eugene âBullâ Conner.
		Despite numerous attacks on his own life, Shuttlesworth pressed on with the fire and spirit that he is known and respected for throughout Alabama, the nation, and the world.
	sclcnational.org.cob-web.org:8888 /page.asp?itemid=4618&siteid=2607 (385 words)

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